Could any of you recommend some good books on Viking culture and warriors, also something on ancient Greece? Thanks!
PS. Are these types of questions allowed? This counts as historiography ,right?
There are many books "http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books" suggested but obviously some user more erudite than me could give to you some other tiltle that aren't listed. Also try to search " Vikings" and "greece" and themes related in this subreddit and try to find youself some other book that aren't in that list linked above. Sorry for the weak reply. Have fun.
I scummed through the MBL and 'recommended reading' Viking threads a while ago and came up with this list (YMMV):
Boulhosa, Patricia Pires, Icelanders and the Kings of Norway: Mediaeval Sagas and Legal Texts (Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2005)
Brink, Stefan., and Neil S. Price, The Viking World (London; New York: Routledge, 2008)
Byock, Jesse L., The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (London: Penguin Classics, 2005)
———, Viking Age Iceland (London ; New York: Penguin Books, 2001)
Forte, Angelo, Richard Oram, and Frederik Pedersen, Viking Empires (Cambridge, U.K. ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Friðriksdóttir, Jóhanna Katrín, Women in Old Norse Literature: Bodies, Words, and Power (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Graham-Campbell, James, and Sean McGrail, The Viking World, 2013
Haywood, John, The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings (London ; New York: Penguin Books, 1995)
Helle, Knut, ed., The Cambridge History of Scandinavia, Volume 1: Prehistory to 1520 (Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Jesch, Judith, Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse (Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2008)
———, Women in the Viking Age (Woodbridge, Suffolk: BOYE6, 1991)
Jochens, Jenny, Women in Old Norse Society (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998)
Jones, Gwyn, A History of the Vikings, 2 edition (London ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Lindow, John, Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Magnusson, Magnus, The Icelandic Sagas (The Folio Society)
McDonald, R. Andrew, and Angus A. Somerville, The Viking Age: A Reader (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010)
Miller, William Ian, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland, New edition edition (Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1997)
Mortensen, Lars Boje, The Making of Christian Myths in the Periphery of Latin Christendom (c. 1000-1300) (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006)
Richards, Julian D., The Vikings: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)
Roesdahl, Else, The Vikings: Revised Edition, Revised edition (London ; New York: Penguin Books, 1999)
Sawyer, Birgit, and Peter Sawyer, Medieval Scandinavia: From Conversion to Reformation, circa 800-1500, 1 edition (Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1993)
Sawyer, Peter, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings (Oxford England; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Sawyer, P. H., Age of the Vikings, 2nd Revised edition edition (London: Hodder & Stoughton Educational, 1975)
Simek, Rudolf, A Dictionary of Northern Mythology, trans. by Angela Hall (Cambridge England; Rochester, N.Y.: BOYE6, 2008)
Somerville, Angus A., and R. Andrew McDonald, The Vikings and Their Age, 2nd Revised edition edition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013)
Turville-Petre, Edward Oswald Gabriel, Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia, First U.K. Edition edition (Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1975)
Williams, Gareth, Peter Pentz, Matthias Wemhoff, and Sunhild. Kleingärtner, Vikings: Life and Legend, 2014
Winroth, Anders, The Age of the Vikings, First Edition edition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014)